One H. L. Moekle of Ford Motor Co.'s auditing department went by train from Detroit to Boston last week, bearing as courier the balance sheet of his company's 1926 business. At Boston he paid the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations (Henry F. Long) $10* as a filing fee and the report became the tidbit of public prattle. The annual statement, composed of a few hundred arabic numerals, naturally told nothing of the internal affairs of the Ford Motor Co. President Edsel B. Ford and his father and mother still make that their private business....
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